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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services (Resumed): Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: St. Michael’s House does not have any congregated settings.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services (Resumed): Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: The housing situation is obviously a huge factor in that regard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services (Resumed): Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: I thank the witnesses for attending and for their contributions. I also thank the members. The next meeting of the joint committee will be held on Tuesday, 25 June at 7 p.m.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (26 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: I was stunned to read this week that the long-awaited and long-overdue national children’s hospital was set to be delayed further and that this supposedly state-of-the-art hospital may not even be accessible to wheelchair users. The Dáil was told in February that the project’s completion date would be this October and that the first patients could be expected to be treated...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (26 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: The need for this hospital has long been debated. There were delays in the initial stages about the location and it was decided that it should be in the middle of the city. I still question whether that was wise, but is too late to go back on that. If there had been delays at the beginning to ensure the design was right everybody could have understood that. However, it seems that there...

Primary School Funding: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: The long-term effects of inadequate funding in primary schools have led to a crisis which, if not properly addressed, will continue to have negative knock-on effects on our children's education and well-being. This is especially the case for children with additional needs, who also face many barriers to inclusivity, such as short school days, reduced timetables and permanent exclusion from...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: Friday next, 28 June is International Neonatal Screening Day. Can the Minister please provide an update on the roll-out of spinal muscular atrophy, SMA, in the national newborn blood spot screening programme, or the heel-prick test as we refer to it? Will she indicate when she expects the first baby to be tested in Ireland with this potentially devastating disease? The Minister for Health,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (26 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: As none of the Deputies who have tabled a question is here, we will move on to the next item of business.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the Minister of State and the Department officials. I welcome that there will be an increase in the staffing level of the NCSE. It is badly needed. At the time representatives of the NCSE appeared before the autism committee, there had been a significant increase in the number of administrative staff but not in the number of SENOs. Like Senator Seery Kearney, I have heard from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: The Minister of State talked about the number of schools taking up the summer provision, indicated it is not as many as we want and said she wants to concentrate on special schools. Some principals are very precious about their school, almost as though they own the school, but the Department of Education owns the school. Summer provision has been opened to other organisations. If a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: What about the top-up payments?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (25 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1828 of 17 January 2024, if he has put funding in place for new undergraduate students from the Republic for the 2024-2025 academic year to study key healthcare and therapy areas pertinent to the staffing needs of children’s disability network teams in Ulster University; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (25 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional third level places coming on stream for the start of the 2024-2025 academic year pertinent to the staffing needs of children’s disability network teams, specifically in occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, physiotherapy, psychology and social work; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if child maintenance will be disregarded from the housing assistance payment and differential rent scheme assessment operated by local authorities, following the announcement from Government that child maintenance will be excluded from all social welfare means tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27658/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions he has taken to ensure that the deposit return scheme is accessible to disabled people since the launch of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27566/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: I ask the Minister what actions he has taken to ensure that the deposit return scheme, DRS, is accessible to disabled people, since the launch of the scheme.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: I find this a bit unbelievable. Planning for this scheme has taken many months, maybe even years. The scheme was launched at the beginning of the year and the first meeting to properly discuss and have consultation around accessiblity took place on 6 June. Now an advisory panel is going to be put in place. The machines are already in place. They are welcome and are working well....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: It is all right to talk about public consultation processes but if those processes are not accessible to everybody then they are not much use. We have to ensure that everybody is included, that they are easy to read and that there are accessible forms of consultation to ensure that everyone’s voices are heard. The scheme in Demark, for example, has been operating for 20 years. It...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of meetings he has undertaken with communities impacted by the North-South interconnector; the outcome of those meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27574/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: How many meetings has the Minister undertaken with communities impacted by the North-South interconnector and what has been the outcome of those meetings?